Unwanted Number lyrics - Elvis Costello and The Imposters

You should hear the things that they say about me

They're saying "She's no better than she needed to be"

They don't know that he was kind and warm and tender

Soon he's gonna be another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

How can I tell them?

How can I express?

How it felt to step out of this life and into his embrace

How can I tell them?

How can I explain?

All the love that I never had, I found in him

There may be a stain on the family name

And if my father was here I think I know who he'd blame

Mama says that he just doesn't care to remember

And all he thinks of me is another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

What can she tell me?

What can I expect?

Of all the painful lessons that she learned she never earned respect

What can she tell me?

What can I believe?

That she really didn't hear me cry whenever he would leave?

There's a local game where they whisper my shame

They say "He gave her his child, he wouldn't give her his name"

They will torture me from January till September

And I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

And I will give my love

And I will give my love

I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

And I will give my love

And I will give my love

I will give my love to another Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number

Unwanted Number